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public sector MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise Matt Clifford is stepping down as chair of the UK's taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), just days after saying he intended to keep the job while working
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TL;DR Reco’s State of Agent Security 2026 report found that 80% of AI tools in its telemetry operated without IT oversight, with SMBs averaging 414 unsanctioned AI tools per 1,000 employees. IBM found shadow AI added $670K to breach costs. The article explains how companies should triage:
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France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival. The worry is that adopting it would trade reliance
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For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to be.
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The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that
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American buyers are leaving electric cars for hybrids and petrol after the $7,500 federal credit ended, with 42.6% of second-quarter EV trade-ins going to a combustion car. Hybrids are already the biggest-selling powertrain in the EU at 37.3%, and the Commission has proposed keeping them legal after
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* Sony has updated an icon with the new 'mid-range' WH-1000XM4C * Also unveiled: entry-level WH-CH730N over-ears, to update the WH-CH720N * …and WH-CH530N on-ears, to supersede the WH-CH530N Sony asked me, during this particular product briefing, if I too had a habit of counting how many of a specific brand
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The second half of Ted Lasso season 4 is about to begin. Indeed, with five chapters down and another five to go, the past seven days have — to use a soccer analogy — been like an overly long half-time interval. Thankfully, the referee is about to blow their whistle and restart
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It’s finally happening — this week, we are (probably) about to see Apple’s first foldable iPhone, more than five years after Samsung launched its first foldable phone. Apple’s annual iPhone release events are always interesting in one way or another, but this year’s presentation is one of
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The Mate XT2 will go on sale starting September 12. Huawei Huawei is claiming the title for the first foldable smartphone that offers a built-in privacy display with the announcement of its Mate XT2. While Samsung offers its own tri-folding smartphone and the Galaxy S26 Ultra with Privacy Display, Huawei
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It's actually quite easy to prevent it from linking to your iPhone in your car. Lloyd Vas/Shutterstock Apple's CarPlay has become one of the favorite features of iPhone owners who happen to own a car that supports it. Using an interface that's an
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The company also debuts two new budget-friendly options Sony Sony is taking a unique approach to its headphone lineup for the rest of the year. Instead of building an all-new upper-midrange model, the company is reviving and old favorite. With the WH-1000XM4C (or WH-1000XM4 second-generation), Sony is bringing back a
